Still flat: Despite beach openings, Northeast Florida coronavirus is under control

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The entire region added just 52 new cases since Monday.

Northeast Florida added just 52 new cases since Monday, according the Florida Department of Health.

As f Friday, 1,590 cases of COVID-19 were reported across the five-county area.

Six new deaths were added in the region throughout the week, bringing the total to 45 including three each in Duval and Clay counties.

The region added 44 new hospitalizations since Monday, bringing that total to 259. Jacksonville accounted for 36 of those hospitalizations.

This week, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry’s ordered more openings for business and recreation. He also signed a bill this week to help provide financial relief to some local businesses and families hit hard by the pandemic.

Statewide, 34,728 cases have been reported including 1,314 deaths  and 5,767 hospitalizations.

Drew Dixon

Drew Dixon is a journalist of 40 years who has reported in print and broadcast throughout Florida, starting in Ohio in the 1980s. He is also an adjunct professor of philosophy and ethics at three colleges, Jacksonville University, University of North Florida and Florida State College at Jacksonville. You can reach him at [email protected].


3 comments

  • Sonja Fitch

    May 1, 2020 at 3:14 pm

    Are these factual numbers???? Duffus Desantis is suppressing numbers! Are the numbers suppressed here in Northeast? Money over lives is the goal of the goptrump cult leaders!

    • Margaret A Blustine

      May 1, 2020 at 4:01 pm

      Jax 36 out of 44 because opened jax beaches.highest number new cases in fla yesterday
      Tc palm published gla ept healt real.numbers usualy.de santis riging numbersmany sik.many.places stil.cdnt get tet kits. De santis rigging his downfall backfiring deadlyphsec1 while no.flattening fla no.14 declining days consecutive.trump done.now de santis brainwshed lost his prsonal.ecion making brain
      God help.us.it same hotspoot track.same fla and italy horriblf condition
      De santis skewingreported data will.backfire as fla goes past itdly spsin now fast

  • Gary J Stein

    May 1, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    It’s still too early to notice fallout from the beach opening. Give it a week or two.

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